Re: [TCLUG:13570] Debian / KDE...

[Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>]

I never made it to your apt 101 class! (although, I think it would have
been a good one to make it to)

That looks like it worked (it's downloading a new package list now)... 

Thanks!
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, ^chewie wrote:

> > > I was just wondering if there is a way to do this to install kde
> > > applications...  I know debian has some sort of thing against "KDE" (or,
> > > at least for some strange reason they don't put it even in their non-free
> > > section). 
> 
> Ah...I see you were sleeping through my Apt-get 101 class!
> 
> > > Up until now, I have just been downloading the KDE .deb files and
> > > installing them with dpkg...  Just wondering if there is a way to get apt
> > > to see kde stuff.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:06:14AM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote:
> > Yes there is away.  There is a project to make KDE packages for the
> > major distributions at http://kde.tdyc.com/.  There is an archive 
> > that works with apt-get, the details and all of the apt-get source
> > lines are at http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/.  
> 
> I have found these details to be a bit problematic.  Here is my working
> KDE sources.list line:
> 
> # KDE stuff
> deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb/potato/ i386/
> 
> If the email wraps, this is all on one line.  The details that Jim
> described point to the wron directory.
> 
> -- 
> Chad Walstrom                         mailto:chewie@wookimus.net 
> a.k.a ^chewie, gunnarr               http://wookimus.net/~chewie
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